Fadumo Abdi Sheikh and her children lost everything about a decade ago when famine and drought forced them to leave their village in Somalia and flee to the city of Baidoa. The family struggled to get ...
Cash transfer programmes have emerged as a cornerstone of social protection strategies aimed at reducing poverty and promoting human development across low- and middle-income countries. Broadly ...
Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...
Ensuring that poverty-alleviation initiatives reach those most in need has been slow and difficult in most developing countries. But if governments make the most of existing data and systems, carry ...
BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A total of 832 counties, 128,000 villages and nearly 100 million people were living in poverty. This was the reality that China had to face. The task of providing support to ...
Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University-led study. Based on household surveys in ...
ISLAMABAD, 28 March 2018: The UN refugee agency and the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) launched Wednesday a pilot programme to help provide sustainable livelihood opportunities to both ...